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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think we forget that some kids in our schools have been subject to sexual trauma.

To Kill a Mockingbird triggered my sexual trauma in school. It was required reading and I had to write an essay on it. So there was no option and my parents didn’t know the book or of my sexual trauma so I felt I had no where to turn.

Sure, exposing kids to all the bad things that happen in the world can seem like you are doing them some good when they have this far lived rather carefree,  but some kids have been exposed to this in real life not just on paper and don’t yet have the ability to even process it.

Having it on a bookshelf in a school library, a space that should feel safe, and coming across it accidentally or by required reading should not happen there. Not where they should feel safe and where they spend the majority of their youth.

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On the flip side, I was sexually abused as a child and had no words for it and thought I was completely alone, a freak.  I had no idea that other kids were experiencing the same thing and that there was nothing wrong with me, that it was not my fault, and that help was available.  I am so happy that there are books now for kids that DO discuss sexual abuse because it would have helped me SO much to know that I was not alone.  That isn’t the situation with Lawn Boy, but there are several books appropriate for elementary school that do include characters who experience sexual abuse and I am so glad they exist now.[/quote]

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